Description of problem: The keyboard (PS/2, not USB) will sooner or later get stuck. The most common symptom is the continuous repeating of one the last pressed keys (It also happened that no input at all comes any more from the keyboard). There is no way to stop it (neither with the keyboard connected nor unconnected). The USB mouse is unaffected, and the system is not hung (remote login possible). No system log entry. Only reboot gets keyboard working again. This is filed under kernel, since I suspect the keyboard controller being involved. I also tried the following things (as found by googling), without success: 1. stop irqbalance 2. add i8042.reset=1 i8042.nopnp=1 i8042.noaux=1 i8042.nomux=1 to kernel parameters. The mainboard is an Asus P7P55D-E, with most features disabled, and a 4-core Intel i7. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-2.6.35.10-74.fc14.x86_64 How reproducible: Not deterministic.
You should be able to recover by switching to a console (ctrl-alt-f2) and then back to the graphical session (ctrl-alt-f1). What kind of keyboard is attached?
The keyboard does not respond any more at all. The keyboard is a PS/2 UNICOMP. However I have found the following: I login remotely, dmesg has the line ...drivers/input/serio/i8042.c: Interrupt 1, without any data... which is a hint that the kernel driver is involved. Then I do the following as root: echo -n reconnect > /sys/devices/platform/i8042/serio0/drvctl and the keyboard is working as before. As a workaround I can run a script that regularly performs the reconnection, but this should of course only by a temporary fix.
I'm experiencing the same problem. Using the reconnect command via remote login as described in previous comment has worked in restoring a working keyboard. I've noticed it happen twice tonight. I applied the kernel-2.6.35.11-83.fc14.x86_64 two two days ago.
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